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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

8. Brian Eno & David ByrneMy Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

This came in the wake of Remain In Light as a side project. I’d seen Talking Heads at Eric’s, which was my world back then. Although slightly older people said it was like Can and introducing sound collages, I didn’t think Can were that funky, but this is. It was quite an amazing album really, and freaked everybody out when it was released. ‘The Jezebel Spirit’ and ‘America Is Waiting’, I guess, were the standout tracks that I got, but the end track [‘Mountain Of Needles’] as well, which had slowed-down sounds and voices. I thought it was brilliant.

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